On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:22:15PM +0200, Francesco Riosa wrote: > everything about portage is very specific and should be separated, I > would like to see an addition of one root directory "gentoo" where > ${PKGMANAGER} keep all it's stuff. > Some of these are already moveable with ${*DIR} variables in > make.conf, others are not I don't agree that we should create a "gentoo" root directory; however, to be technical, /usr/portage is wrong.
I will list what My thoughts would be below your suggestions. Keep in mind that this is just being thrown out there without thinking about the details all that much. > 20K /gentoo/tmp Maybe /tmp? > 20K /gentoo/overlays This isn't on everyones system, so I think it is up to the user and what you are putting in it. Maybe /var/cache/portage/overlays? > 639M /gentoo/portage /var/cache/portage/gentoo-portage > 3.1G /gentoo/distfiles /var/cache/portage/distfiles? > 4.1M /gentoo/var/log /var/log/portage? They are logs so they should go where all other logs are. > 36K /gentoo/var/lib/portage /var/lib/portage is ok for this I think. > 43M /gentoo/var/db/pkg /var/db/pkg is fine for this I think. > 940K /gentoo/var/cache/edb Maybe /var/cache/portage/edb? > 2.7M /gentoo/packages /var/cache/portage/packages? What do you think? William
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